About Construction QA
Run by a chartered construction manager, not a software company
Construction QA is run by an MCIOB chartered construction manager, supported by a team with decades of experience on UK sites, working for tier 1 main contractors and first-tier subcontractors, and delivering homes for national housebuilders and developers.
Why we built these forms
Most construction paperwork fails for one of two reasons: it is too generic to be useful on site, or so long that nobody fills it in. Every form here was written by someone who has had to complete them, check them and defend them in client audits, health and safety inspections and handover. They follow UK law (CDM 2015, the Work at Height Regulations, LOLER, PUWER, COSHH and others) and the way main contractors actually run sites.
Experience behind the forms
- Decades on UK projects as site manager and project manager, across all 33 London local authorities
- Main contractor (tier 1) and first-tier subcontractor delivery
- Residential schemes for national housebuilders and developers
- Quality assurance, inspection and test plans, snagging and handover
- Health and safety management under CDM 2015
- Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Building (MCIOB)
Who our team works with
Our team has worked with all of the organisations below on UK projects, most of them across London. That is why our forms use the language and evidence these bodies actually ask for, and why our records get sign-off first time. Links open each organisation’s own website.
Building control and building safety
Plans approval, site inspections and completion certificates. Our QA records give inspectors the evidence they ask for first time.
Council building control teams. We prepare inspection-ready records for foundations, drainage, structure, fire stopping and completion.
The regulator for higher-risk buildings. Golden thread, change control and completion evidence must be right first time.
Registered building control approvers
Private building control bodies. Stage inspections run faster when photos, test results and certificates are in one place.
Assent Building Control
A national building control approver working on residential and commercial schemes.
Butler & Young
Building control and consultancy, common on London residential projects.
MLM Building Control
Building control approver within an engineering consultancy, active on large schemes.
Building control and compliance services, including testing and certification.
Approved Inspector Services
Independent building control approver for housing and commercial work.
Fire engineers and fire strategy consultants
Fire strategies we turn into inspection checklists for compartmentation and fire stopping.
New home warranty and structural insurance
Warranty providers inspect key stages before they will insure a new home. Missing evidence delays plot completions and sales.
The UK’s largest new home warranty provider. We work to NHBC Standards at every key stage.
Structural warranty linked to local authority building control, widely used by developers.
Structural warranty for new homes and conversions, with stage inspections.
Checkmate
Structural warranty and latent defects insurance for residential and commercial schemes.
Structural warranty provider for residential developments, conversions and build-to-rent.
ICW
Building warranty provider used by developers and lenders.
Protek
Structural defects warranty for new build and conversion projects.
CRL
Latent defects insurance and warranty for residential and mixed-use schemes.
Advantage HCI
Home and commercial warranty provider for new build and conversions.
Global Home Warranties
New home and commercial structural warranty provider.
Health, safety and fire
The bodies that set and enforce safety standards on site. Our H&S forms follow what they expect to see.
Britain’s regulator for workplace health and safety, including CDM 2015. Inspectors ask for exactly the records our forms produce.
Fire safety, firefighting access and consultation on London buildings.
Fire and rescue services outside London
Fire authority consultation on projects across the UK.
CDM 2015 principal designers
Duty holders for pre-construction. We share information that feeds the construction phase plan and the H&S file.
Client H&S advisers
Independent advisers who audit sites. Good records make audits short.
The construction industry training board, behind SMSTS, SSSTS and many site courses.
The main construction skills card scheme. Our card registers record CSCS, CPCS, NPORS, CISRS and more.
Industry scheme for considerate, safe and respectful sites. Monitors look for good records too.
Planning, highways and transport
Licences, conditions and logistics that decide when and how work can happen in London.
London-wide planning policy and funding for housing.
Borough planning departments
Planning conditions that must be discharged before and during construction.
Borough highways and streetworks teams
Hoarding, scaffold, skip and crane licences, and road closures.
Red routes, bus lanes and construction logistics on the TfL road network.
London Underground asset protection
Approvals for work near tunnels and stations.
Asset protection agreements for work next to the railway.
Strategic road network approvals for larger schemes.
Docklands Light Railway
Approvals for work near DLR infrastructure.
River works licences on the Thames.
Consents for work next to canals and waterways.
Construction logistics plans (CLP)
Plans for deliveries and vehicle movements, monitored by boroughs and TfL.
Environment and heritage
Permits and protections that come with sensitive sites.
Environmental permits, dewatering and flood risk consents.
Protected species and habitats advice and licences.
Listed buildings and heritage assets.
Conservation officers
Borough officers for conservation areas and listed buildings.
Tree officers
Tree protection orders and tree protection during works.
Ecologists and arboriculturists
Specialists whose surveys and method statements we turn into site checks.
Utilities and networks
Diversions, new connections, buried services and work near live networks. Our service checks and permits help avoid strikes.
Electricity network operator for London and the South East: new supplies and diversions.
Electricity network operator for parts of southern England.
High-voltage electricity and gas transmission; asset protection near major apparatus.
Water and wastewater for London: build-over agreements, sewer and water connections.
Water supplier for parts of north and west London.
Water supplier for parts of south London and Surrey.
Gas distribution for south London and the South East.
Gas distribution for north London and much of England.
Telecoms network: duct and fibre to new homes.
Cable and fibre network operator.
Full-fibre network builder in UK towns and cities.
London full-fibre broadband provider for new and existing homes.
Fibre broadband for apartment buildings and new developments.
Independent connection providers (ICPs)
Accredited contractors who install utility connections.
IDNOs and IGTs
Independent electricity and gas network operators for new developments.
District heat network operators
Communal and district heating connections on larger schemes.
Housebuilders and developers
We know how national and regional housebuilders run QA, sign-off and handover.
One of the UK’s largest housebuilders.
National housebuilder known for build quality awards.
London-focused developer of large mixed-use regeneration schemes.
National housebuilder with divisions across the UK.
National housebuilder of family homes.
Partnership housing and regeneration with councils and housing associations.
Housebuilder in the South of England.
Premium family homes housebuilder.
Large privately owned housebuilder.
Regional and SME developers
Smaller developers who need a clear QA system without a big team.
Build-to-rent and student accommodation developers
Operators who need consistent quality across every unit.
Housing associations and public clients
Clients with high standards for safety, handover and long-term maintenance.
One of the UK’s largest housing associations.
Major London housing association and developer.
London housing association delivering new homes and regeneration.
London housing association and developer.
Housing association across London and the South East.
Housing association in London and the South East.
Sovereign Network Group
Large housing association in the South of England.
The government’s housing and regeneration agency.
Borough housing departments
Councils building their own new homes.
NHS trusts
Healthcare estates with strict quality and safety needs.
Schools and academy trusts
Education projects, often built while sites stay open.
Client teams and consultants
The professionals who check the work on the client’s behalf.
Employer’s agents
Act for the client under design and build contracts; they rely on QA records.
Clerks of works
Inspect quality on site for the client.
Project monitoring surveyors for funders
Report progress and quality to banks and investors.
Party wall surveyors
Schedules of condition and awards for neighbouring properties.
Quantity surveyors
Valuations and cost, linked to completed and inspected work.
Structural and civil engineers
Designs and inspections we check against on site.
Architects
Design intent and specifications behind every inspection.
MEP consultants
Mechanical, electrical and plumbing design and commissioning.
Principal designers
CDM duty holders for the design stage.
Experience across all London boroughs
Projects delivered across all 32 London boroughs and the City of London, working with each local authority on building control, planning conditions, highways licences, hoarding and scaffold licences, and construction logistics plans.
Barking and DagenhamBarnetBexleyBrentBromleyCamdenCity of LondonCroydonEalingEnfieldGreenwichHackneyHammersmith and FulhamHaringeyHarrowHaveringHillingdonHounslowIslingtonKensington and ChelseaKingston upon ThamesLambethLewishamMertonNewhamRedbridgeRichmond upon ThamesSouthwarkSuttonTower HamletsWaltham ForestWandsworthWestminster
What we offer
Sapper Ltd, trading as Construction QA. Registered in England & Wales, company number 09462720. Registered office: 2 Pipers Gardens, Croydon, CR0 7LY. info@constructionqa.co.uk · 07468 944 222
